Intel Arctic Sound

Intel's Arctic Sound GPU uses the Generation 12.5 architecture and is made using a 10 nm production process at Intel. With a die size of 190 mm² and a transistor count of 8,000 million it is a small chip. Arctic Sound supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_1). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 3.0 can be used. It features 8192 shading units, 256 texture mapping units and 128 ROPs.

Graphics Processor

Released: 2021

GPU Name: Arctic Sound

Architecture: Generation 12.5

Codename: Xe-HP

Foundry: Intel

Process Size: 10 nm

Transistors: 8,000 million

Density: 42.1M / mm²

Die Size: 190 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 12 (12_1)

OpenGL: 4.6

OpenCL: 3.0

Vulkan: N/A

Shader Model: 6.6

WDDM: 3.1

Render Config

Shading Units: 8192

TMUs: 256

ROPs: 128

Execution Units: 512

L2 Cache: 8192 KB

Max. TDP: 500 W

All Generation 12.5 GPUs

Intel GPU Architecture History

2023 Xe-LPG
2022-2023 Generation 12.7
2021-2024 Generation 12.5
2021-2023 Generation 12.2
2020-2021 Generation 12.1
2019-2021 Generation 11.0
2016-2020 Generation 9.5
2015-2016 Generation 9.0
2014-2015 Generation 8.0
2013 Generation 7.5
2012-2013 Generation 7.0
2011 Generation 6.0
2010-2013 Knights
2010 Generation 5.75
2008-2010 PowerVR SGX545
2008 Generation 5.0
2008-2010 PowerVR SGX535
2006-2007 Generation 4.0
2005-2006 Generation 3.5
2004-2005 Generation 3.0
2002-2003 Generation 2.0
1998 i740
1998-2002 Generation 1.0

Graphics cards using the Intel Arctic Sound GPU

Name	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
Intel Arctic Sound 2T	16 GB	7680	240	120	900 MHz	1200 MHz
Intel Arctic Sound-M	16 GB	8192	256	128	900 MHz	1200 MHz
Intel Arctic Sound 1T	16 GB	6144	192	96	900 MHz	1200 MHz